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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Atul Gawande - Metropolitan Books
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December 19, 2018
In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending
Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming... |
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe.
Then, one by one, the Osage... |
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I Am Pilgrim: A Thriller
Terry Hayes - Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Format: Book
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February 20, 2019
Critics are calling I AM PILGRIM:
"Unputdownable." - BOOKLIST
"The best book of 2014." - Suspense Magazine
"The next Girl with the Dragon Tattoo." - The New York... |
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Siddhartha Mukherjee - HarperCollins; 1 edition
Format: Book
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March 20, 2019
The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer—from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer... |
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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine: A Novel
Gail Honeyman - Pamela Dorman Books
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick"Beautifully written and incredibly funny, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is about the importance of friendship and human connection. I fell in love with Eleanor, an eccentric and regimented loner whose... |
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American Pastoral
Philip Roth - Vintage; Reprint edition
Format: Book
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May 15, 2019
As the American century draws to an uneasy close, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all our century's promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth's protagonist is Swede Levov, a legendary... |
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News of the World: A Novel
Paulette Jiles - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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National Book Award Finalist - FictionIt is 1870 and Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless,... |
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
Nathaniel Philbrick - Viking Adult
Format: Book
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August 21, 2019
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Chris Hemsworth, Cillian Murphy, Ben Wishaw, and Brendan Gleeson, and directed by Ron Howard."With its huge, scarred head halfway out of the water and its tail beating the ocean into a white-water... |
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The Man Who Climbs Trees
James Aldred - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Book
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September 18, 2019
A professional tree climber encounters gorillas, snakes, spiders, and birds of prey, as well as answers and perspective, hundreds of feet up, all over the world
Every child knows the allure of climbing trees. But how many of us get to make... |
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